Meliosma pinnata(Roxb.) Maxim.

WFO wfo-0001133381 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Meliosma pinnata, photographed by Srinivasan Kasinathan
fig. a Srinivasan Kasinathan, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-04-02 / obs. 53548951
Meliosma pinnata, photographed by Ashwin Viswanathan
fig. b Ashwin Viswanathan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53021982
Meliosma pinnata, photographed by Ashwin Viswanathan
fig. c Ashwin Viswanathan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53021918
Meliosma pinnata, photographed by Ashwin Viswanathan
fig. d Ashwin Viswanathan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53022119

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 2377914
Filed as
Meliosma pinnata subsp. humilis (Merr. & L.M.Perry) van Beusekom
Det. by
James, S. A.
Collected
R. D. Hoogland & R. Schodde
Origin
PG
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Meliosma pinnata is native: Tibet, Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera TibetAssamBangladeshBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuNew GuineaPhilippinesSulawesiSumatera
Native distribution of Meliosma pinnata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Bismarck Archipelago BIS
Borneo BOR
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Tibet CHT ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 21 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Meliosma acuminatissima Merr.
  • Meliosma bartlettii Merr. & L.M.Perry
  • Meliosma brachybotrys Merr.
  • Meliosma confertiflora Merr. & L.M.Perry
  • Meliosma elegans Ridl.
  • Meliosma ferruginea Blume
  • Meliosma humilis Merr. & L.M.Perry
  • Meliosma macgregorii Merr.
  • Meliosma macrocarpa Elmer
  • Meliosma macrophylla Merr.
  • Meliosma megalobotrys Merr.
  • Meliosma paucinervia Merr.
  • Meliosma pendula Merr.
  • Meliosma reticulata Merr.
  • Meliosma ridleyi King
  • Meliosma schlechteri Merr. & L.M.Perry
  • Meliosma sylvatica Elmer
  • Meliosma tongcalingii Elmer
  • Meliosma trichocarpa Merr.
  • Millingtonia ferruginea (Blume) Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Millingtonia pinnata Roxb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.